Blazin 360 No Scoping Good Times
420 Tree Hugging
Fluttershy began walking up Pinkie's driveway. Earlier today Pinkie had invited her to come over and play, along with Shy's newest friend, Tree Hugger. Fluttershy had met her during an exchange program where she worked in another school's veterinary office. Her first impressions of Tree Hugger had been...interesting to say the least.
When she first saw her she was on a short lunch break over by the wall outside the window of the room eating a small salad...and breathing in what looked to be a small white roll of paper with a strange green leaf in it that she seemingly had set ablaze. Shy assumed it wasn't a good thing since one of the staff saw her and took it from her and told her to get back to the vet's office, but Shy assured herself that wasn't anything to be worried about since Tree Hugger seemed extremely nice, though very mellow. Very VERY mellow.
Shy was sad when the program was over since she'd need to say goodbye to Tree Hugger, but the staff and even the students seemed to really want her to go back with Shy; in fact they practically begged her to take Tree Hugger with her.
So the two walked up to Pinkie's front door and Shy turned to Tree hugger, she asked "So... are you ready to meet Pinkie, Tree Hugger? Fair warning, Pinkie can be very...excitable.”
"Like, no worries Butterfly, an energetic personality means a healthy chakra." Tree Hugger replied, sounding a bit out of it.
Shy smiled and said "Oh thats good! Oh and it's Fluttershy, not Butterfly." Shy then made note that Tree Hugger's eyes were a bit puffy and a tad reddish, "Oh um Tree Hugger, are you feeling ok? Were you crying before I came to get you?" she asked, a bit worried for her friend.
Tree Hugger chuckled and said "Naw Cluttertie, it’s all cool. I just took some time to relax the usual way I relax: a little yoga, some meditation and some of my favorite magical plant".
Shy smiled though a little smaller this time "Oh well, that’s good to hear. Oh and again, it's Fluttershy." Shy was thinking to herself in the back of her mind what Tree Hugger meant when she said her ‘Favorite Magical Plant’ but before she could ask, the door was suddenly open and a blur of Pinkie ended up between the two.
“Hey Flutters, is this your new friend?” the hyperactive teen asked. Before Shy could answer Pinkie went ahead and told Tree Hugger, “Hi there! I’m Pinkie Pie, you must be Tree Hugger!” She gave Tree Hugger a quick embrace then walked back inside saying, “Come on girls, we can’t have a night of fun in our normal clothes!” The three girls went and changed into their PJ’s, and after grabbing some snacks and sneaking them into Pinkie’s room (since her mom was very persnickety about Pinkie eating in her room), the three sat down while Pinkie went and grabbed something from the other room. When she returned, Shy looked at the small case Pinkie was holding. It depicted what looked a special forces officer with the letters C and D in capitals with a lowercase o, and a subtitle that read “Advanced Warfare”.
Shy wasn’t much of a gamer but she knew what an age rating was, so when she saw an “M” on the box she asked Pinkie “Oh um, Pinkie, are you sure we’re allowed to play that?”
Pinkie giggled and said “Relax Flutter Butter. My mom won’t be back for a few hours. Besides, Dashie wanted us to play it with her.”
Tree Hugger, looking a little more out there than when they had arrived at Pinkie’s house, asked “Hey Slinky Pie, can I like, have first crack at that?”
Pinkie giggled and said “Of course you can silly billy! And my name is Pinkie not Slinky. Hehe you’re funny.” Pinkie then popped the game into the console Maud had let her borrow for the night.
Meanwhile, a few blocks away, Rainbow Dash was getting settled into her favorite bean bag chair ready to play. She had invited AJ and Derpy over for their own sleepover: Dash and Derpy weren’t exactly close companions but Derpy’s normal friends were out of town for the weekend so Dash agreed to let Derpy hang out with them (with a little arm bending from AJ...literally).
As Dash went to grab the controller AJ grabbed it first, “Now listen RD, I know you’re good at these games and you’re a massive showboat, but try to take it easy, especially if Pinkie manages to get Shy to play.”
Dash snatched the controller and replied “Relax, I won’t run them into the ground, but I’m sure as hell not laying down for them. I got a reputation to uphold!"
AJ rolled her eyes and said “Yeah, a reputation to uphold for a bunch of foul mouthed, cracked out orangutans.”
Dash then rolled her eyes and said “Yeah, yeah. You’re just jealous they aren’t your buds.”
AJ smirked and said “The same ‘Buds’ that thought you were a homosexual 12 year old the first time you played with them?”
Dash’s face glowed a faint red and her head snapped towards AJ, “Hey! Shut up. Anyway let’s get this started.” Dash booted up the game and entered the lobby.
Back at Pinkie’s house, Pinkie had gotten 3 bean bags for her, Shy and Tree Hugger to sit on. Tree Hugger had the controller and entered the same lobby Dash was in. Pinkie then took out her phone and said “I’ll just give Dash a quick text and tell her your new friend is up first.” She typed the message and sent it to Dash.
Dash was waiting in the lobby when her phone vibrated. She took it out and read the text Pinkie sent her. “just a heads up Dashie, Fluttershy’s new friend Tree Hugger is up first” Dash then put her phone down and said “Tree Hugger, wait, isn’t she that stoner looking girl that just transferred to Canterlot High?”
AJ laid back in her bean bag. “Yep, that name does ring a bell. Anyway the game is starting, don’t be too rough on her alright?”
Dash waved a hand and said “Yeah yeah, keep your stenson on, it’s go time baby!”
The game started and Dash parked herself in her favorite sniping spot; she loved this spot because it was nigh impossible for someone to hit her from the far side of the map, and by the time anyone got in position to hit her, they were either already dead or one shot away from it, in which case Dash just gunned them down.
Tree Hugger slowly walked down the map and spotted Dash. “Oh hey look Tuttercry, it’s your friend.”
Pinkie giggled “Yep, in her favorite spot it seems, I always say to her it’s kinda unfair for her to sit there since no one can hit her from far aw-”.
Bang.
A hit marker showed up on Tree Hugger’s screen and Dash’s in game character dropped dead from the clean headshot. Shy was suprised, Pinkie’s mouth was wide open and back over at Dash’s house, Dash’s jaw was on the floor. “What?! Thats impossible, there’s no way she just hit me, that’s a pixel perfect shot!” AJ did her best to suppress a chuckle as Dash growled. Dash gave her neck a quick crack then said “Alright Tree Hugger, you’re better than I thought, which means I don’t have to go easy on you now.” Dash smirked as she switched loadouts and went on the offensive.
As the match continued Dash became increasingly frustrated as every time she seemingly had the drop on Tree Hugger, Tree Hugger would somehow pull off some nigh impossible maneuver and put a cap in Dash’s head. AJ was finding it harder and harder to not burst into laughter and even Derpy was having a hard time not laughing.
Pinkie and Shy couldn’t believe how quickly Tree Hugger had grasped the game and was making Dash, an extremely high ranking player, look like a first day scrub. By the final minute of the 3rd game Dash was nearly grinding her teeth into dust. She was near her limit and was ready to throw her controller through the wall.
Tree Hugger had perched herself on the highest point on the map and spotted Dash coming her way, in what looked like an error Tree Hugger walked off the point and began plummeting to the ground, doing spins as she fell. “Round and round like a comet circling the earth.” Shy started to worry that something was wrong with Tree Hugger.
Dash saw Tree Hugger falling and proclaimed “Hah! she’ll be almost dead when she hits the ground, then will be my chance to finally cap her a-”
Bang.
Dash’s character hit the ground dead once again. This time rather than shocked or angry, Dash’s face held no expression. She slowly put the controller down and watched the replay of her death, silently counting the number of full rotations Tree Hugger had made before capping her. She then quietly said “She just...2160 noscoped me. Even I couldn’t pull off something like that.” She then picked the controller back up and said with a little more volume, “Well that was a terrible turnout, I’ll just grab a kill before the game ends and try harder next-”
For the 27th time in the last 3 games, Dash’s character hit the ground after a loud bang. In the time she had watched her death to the seemingly impossible noscope, Tree Hugger had perched herself back on the high lookout point and put a bullet in Dash’s head right after she spawned. Derpy let out an ‘Eep!’ and leaned back as the controller bounced from hitting the ground so hard.
Dash’s face was a furious crimson red and she was firing off every profanity known in existence. AJ couldn’t hold it in any longer and fell back howling in uncontrollable laughter as Dash flipped her bed in anger. Meanwhile on the other side, Shy was speechless and in a very rare case so was Pinkie.
Pinkie after a minute was able to form a sentence. “Um...wow Tree Hugger, good job.”
Tree Hugger turned to Pinkie and asked, “Oh, so like, I won and stuff?”
Pinkie nodded and said, “Yep, you certainly did. I sure hope Dashie isn’t super mad or anything. Oh geez, it’s warm in here. Let me open a window.” Pinkie opened her window and she could swear she heard someone that sounded like Dash screaming profanities at the top of her lungs.
Tree Hugger smiled and said, “Cool I won. This calls for a celebration.” She fished out a few small white rolls from her bag and her lighter. “Do you girls like, want to try some?”
Shy just shook her head and said, “Oh no thank you. Truth be told I don’t even know what that stuff is.”
Just then Pinkie’s mom walked in the room. “Pinkie are you and your friends alright in- wait. Pinkie is this food in your room?” She then turned and saw Tree Hugger with one of the rolls in her mouth, the end lit up. “Are you smoking pot?!”
Tree Hugger turned to Pinkie’s mom, her eyes already looking a little more red and puffy then when she first came to Pinkie's house and said, “Like totally, you want to try some?” Pinkie’s mom turned to Pinkie, glaring at her for answers, to which Pinkie threw her arms up in defense, while Shy just shrunk a little and whispered to herself, “note to self Fluttershy, next time someone wants you to take someone back with you, don't listen”